Megan's appointment this morning was a 6 month follow-up from her eye surgery. Dr. Board said that her eyes look perfectly straight in her glasses. We discussed how much she is wearing them and how the patching is going. I told him that we have noticed that after 1-2 hours without her glasses on that her eye starts trying to turn in and he said that was normal because she still needs the glasses.
He said that things were looking great and that we didn't need to patch anymore. But by the end of the appointment he had talked himself into us continuing to patch for 1 hour a day just to be on the safe side. He said it won't hurt her but it might help so we should just keep it up.
He gave me some flash cards to work with Megan once she is talking. They are the images he will use for her eye test once she can communicate with him. He wants to make sure she recognizes the pictures so that she doesn't fail a test by mistake.
Her next appointment is in 9 months. She will keep wearing her glasses until then and wear an eye patch 1 hour a day (as much as possible). Hopefully by then she will be talking and able to take an eye exam. The concern is that her right eye has as good of vision as her left (the reason you patch is to ensure this) and there is no way to tell until she can tell us.
It is a relief that he almost had us stop the patching because that lessens the pressure/stress on me to make sure it happens. There are days when she just doesn't want to wear it and it has really stressed me out to think that I might be hurting her eyes by not fighting her more.
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